I made the edit to the OVF file that you outlined above. However, I am getting a different error when trying to deploy the OVF. When I am on step 6 of 6 the install wizard shows "a required disk image was missing". After I hit finish, I get the error "Failed to deploy VM: postNFCData failed."

I did select both the .OVF and .VMDK file when I chose to deploy a new OVF...

I made the edit to the OVF file that you outlined above. However, I am getting a different error when trying to deploy the OVF. When I am on step 6 of 6 the install wizard shows "a required disk image was missing". After I hit finish, I get the error "Failed to deploy VM: postNFCData failed."

I did select both the .OVF and .VMDK file when I chose to deploy a new OVF...

I ended up installing vCenter for 6.5 and was able to provision the 6.6.0 OVF from there. I was not able to provison the OVF directly from vSphere though however much i manipulated/converted the OVF using ovftool.

I ended up installing vCenter for 6.5 and was able to provision the 6.6.0 OVF from there. I was not able to provison the OVF directly from vSphere though however much i manipulated/converted the OVF using ovftool.

It is possible that the VM was exported with ovftool using the --compress argument, so the Host Client is unable to deploy them because the ESXi host expects the uncompressed disk images to be uploaded. Unfortunately, there seems to be no good way to un-gzip those disk images using the web browser at the moment.

So I had to use the ovftool to deploy on my ESXi and I was able to delpoy it successfully.

To use the ovftool for deployment, download the latest version 4.2 from the VMware suppport site. The OVFtool can run on linux, mac or windows OS. Once installed you can use